The Ubuntu Experiment

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/7/30 Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org>:
>> > From experience, that won't interest home users! We need a 'you can do
>> > this' not a 'you are free from this' approach. And home users won't
>> > need a LiveCD.
>>
>> Nope. But users TRYING Ubuntu for the first time will appreciate the
>> LiveCD "Hey, you can try it without destroying your original PC if you
>> aren't sure yet"...
> 
> That is true.

If only the live CD started up faster.  My father-in-law would like to try
Linux, but he doesn't dare install it on Mother-in-law's computer :-)  A
live CD and a USB stick would be perfect for him, if it booted in a
reasonable time.  I actually had him set up with a bootable USB drive, but
it was too flaky to run the OS off it (hardware problem, not software - one
of these days, I'll try it again).
-- 
derek